The Irish standard., 1887-01-15
THE WO0DFORD EvlCTIO|N''S. [. IN
The Pail Mall Gazettes Powerful In
diot1nsnt $Of I.andlord'sn
{ and Alien Rule.
.CLANR2lC N DE'S EN- URGENCY MEN

not Exceedingly Ornamental and 1a USE SO
y. full Only to Their Brutal
Employer.
The Pail Mail Gazette has concluded
Mr.. Stead's history of the Wootd1tord % orc
eyictions. The article, is one m OF T. the the
most powerful OF the whole series, and
welIdeseryes to DO widely. read Here.
are The chief portions of D.. @ y. s}s
/ must confess that 4 Wsssf!SIlot favor :
ably Impressed with the Emergency
men. s They seemed tos5rnes somewhat q o
loutiBh corner boys who undertook IN the
work for cash down, and nothing more.
They might do as cafetakers, although
5hey would not be too particular even il
an evict's cattle did happen to stray
over the familiar felds;f but as cults
vators I would not like to say much for
them. Cultivation, however, is out OF
the question while relations are as
strainedas at present.
The wages of the Emergency men are
81 a week. they are paid by LORD o'e
Clanricarde. 70 garrison Saunders
Fort costs him, therefore, &10o a year,
without including the proportion Of tie
cost fer smith, joiner, travelling van,
etc. Saunders was perfectly willing TO
pay ell As per annum for land the &. rent re-
of which the land Court would probably
reduce to e1o. The money already
spentsin dispossesslng him him would
amount to char. G OF e3 forever upon
S.the farm. But tbat is not all. 10 pro
ft,ct the icaretaEers, VINO cost E22 a week,
there are four constables who cost A8 a
week. The cost Of tbs latter is borne
BY the nation. 1t seems rather hard
that because Locil Clanricalde and one
,1f his tenants cannot agree whether
the rent of 81 acres should be tl4 or eli
As. the British taxpayer should be
mulcted in charge Of el2 per annunl
foreyer--for that is the interest on one
e..lrs'sccst Of psotscti1gg 3 afsssons sof
Saunders Fort. That, however, is the
way in which the ordinary law works in
Ireland today. There is 40 reason
why il should not be indefinitely
repeated. VI There are SIG tenants
on the Woodford estate. Tho net rental
was stated to ne at GSC0. The tenants
i want 1t reduced to e480. To enable
Lord Clanriearde not to collect the full
rent, for thatis impossible to ban
ish from the land the tenants who will
not pay rim the full rent, he will have
Ito speud more thousands than there are
hundreds In dispute, and for every
pound that ha spends he can be COM
pelled to spend two.
q Leaving Rroderiek's we drove on to
Conroy's. Here were FIVE constables,
and half round the doorway was built a
loopholed wall Of stone. Here the
Emergency man could hardly be got to
open lis lips. Me was a;tan, strapping
fellow, but uncouth, and apparently
determined to hold 40 dealings with
the enemy or any one who came in the
ene1ny's company. Some Of the Emer-
gency garrison were out Telling timber
for firing; we passed their carts return.
ing as I'VE drove back TO the priests.
1t was strange sight, q veritable con-
svcv. proceeded. accompanied, and fol-
loved by armed men, soldiers in all but
name, with loaded guns ready TO deal
ont sudden death at a moments notice
to any assailant. The whole scene re-
called "reminiscences Of Cooper's = Path
6nder," and the old Indian wars, when
no man went abroad without bis Shoot
ing-iron, and every tree was scrutinized
sas the possible ambush of a lurking foe.
All was peaceful enough in outward
seeming. The great blackberries hung
in luscious clusters like grapes On the
hedgerows, Cattle were grazing quietly
in the fields, turkeys were stalking
about the road; here and there belated
Fsongster chirruped among the trees;
overhead a few heecy clouds aecked the
blue Of the autumn sky--all was appar-
entity; tranquil, but beneath the outward
seeming the bitterest passions lay as
ready to explode as the powder in the
cartridge Of a loaded rifle. IF you send
any 1nore OF your redcoats here to carry
out sentences OF death on our poor peo-
ple,'' & was told, mo power on earth
will besable to prevent bloodshed. The
stil;iest Sprliest alone restrained them before; the
\ priest may not be able. or willing to
RESTRAIN them again. 81
81 Conroy IS son, they told me, after lln-
;cering q few days around the Old home-
Ate had fed to America, fearing lest
Sthe ever present sight of the wrong un-t
Ss1ta ydear which he was smarting might lead
him too .: some desperate deed. To the
New yV orldd, GA erefo ne has carried
the flaming Iesentni the savage g ami llis
mostly whichs home would have 81
iund vent nmurd not divine
that meet til only
sS5Ss IsSoo MI combustib matter in Amer
B, have soWnj the eW Z orldl IEl q